Kirsten Adam
@kcs_adam
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Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences at Rice University studying attention and working memory. Also: SFF, dogs + nature, food adventures (she/her)
Houston, TX
Joined October 2016
Out today in Visual Cognition - lots of cool articles on the theme of handling visual distraction! Ours (w/ Zi Yang and @serences) uses "surprise trials" to show that visual capture is ~10x larger the first time we encounter a distractor https://t.co/3fsd49Z3XC
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I'm recruiting a full-time PhD student to join my project on the mechanisms underlying the processing of memorable stimuli!🧠The position starts in April 2025 and offers competitive benefits within an inspiring research environment in Finland. Apply here: https://t.co/ta1K7bbXt9
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Psychonomics 2024 is almost here! I'm very excited about the presentations from my new lab. Stop by and tell us what you think! @MizzouPsych @Psychonomic_Soc @XiaojinMa
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If you’re applying to grad school in neuroscience this year, you definitely should apply to work with Maggie!
🚨Prospective grad school applicants! My lab at Carnegie Mellon University is recruiting PhD students to start in Fall 2025.
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OPAM23 in NYC is exactly one month away!! To help you plan your schedule on the first day of Psychonomics, see our OPAM miniprogram! https://t.co/A3PExePDv8
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Information about the program and application process can be found here:
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I'm recruiting a Ph.D. student for the upcoming school year (Fall 2025). If you are interested in studying the neural bases of attention and working memory, I would love to hear from you! You can submit an application from now through Dec 1, 2024.
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Fee-waiver weeks have kicked off! Don’t miss this fee-nomenal opportunity to apply for free! 📝 Check the requirements and deadlines—submit your fee-waiver form by Nov. 1 and your doctoral application by Nov. 27. Apply today and take the next step toward your future!
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When does modular structure emerge in neural networks? What are the consequences of this structure for learning and behavior? New work with @StefanoFusi2 answers these questions and more: https://t.co/IyEZoSR7Gb see 🧵below (1/11)
biorxiv.org
The brain has large-scale modular structure in the form of brain regions, which are thought to arise from constraints on connectivity and the physical geometry of the cortical sheet. In contrast,...
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We are delighted to share that our new paper published today in @NeuroCellPress! We show that the persistent activity of single neurons during working memory (WM) maintenance predicts long-term memory (LTM) formation in the human hippocampus. 👇 https://t.co/J0zZ4wfcWC
cell.com
Daume et al. show that in the human hippocampus, working memory activity of memoranda-selective neurons predicts successful long-term memory (LTM). LTM retrieval, in turn, activates memory-selective...
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Faculty job opening at @OhioStatePsych! Join our wonderful group! 😁🧠@NeuroImagingOSU @OhioStateCCBS Tagging @CogNeuroNews @SocietySpark @BlackInNeuro @BlackinPsych #AcademicTwitter #academicjobs #psychtwitter @SocietySpark @LatinxInPsych @WomenInCogSci @PsychJobs @SfNtweets
We are pleased to announce a faculty search in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Memory. The position will be tenure-track or tenured (Assistant or Associate rank). Review of applications begins Nov. 8, 2024. Learn more:
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The Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice has a THIRD faculty opening for this year! If you are doing research in the area of Health Behavior, please apply! https://t.co/WIN0ykQmyp
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Deadline Alert: AP&P seeks paper submissions for “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson” by October 15. Submission guidelines can be found here: https://t.co/X7C5Zo3ObF
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Super excited this one is officially out! How/when can we suppress the urge to look at and attend to salient distracting information? Check out Han's thread for an explainer! "The temporal dynamics of visual attention" in JEP: General
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Join us in the SPAN Lab! I will be recruiting a PhD student this cycle. Apply if interested in questions related to how stress shapes development. Particularly a good fit if interested in loneliness, emotion, learning, decision making, and psychophysiology. Pls RT (1/3)
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We are looking for a new colleague! #Vacancy for a 4 year fully-funded PhD position in cognitive psychology. The candidate will investigate individual differences in the spotlight of visual attention. Apply before October 6th! https://t.co/2b4yYo3Q5v
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Excited that my postdoctoral work with @jcmankoff was featured on Meta's blog post! We developed algorithms using surface EMG and movement sensors to enable people with motor disabilities to personalize gesture interactions. https://t.co/HhevQ3oytP
meta.com
We’ve continued our research into surface EMG to facilitate inclusive human-computer interactions (HCI) for people with a wide range of neuromotor abilities.
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Next, we compared color and a much more cortically disparate visual feature: the coherence level of RDKs. Again, color almost perfectly generalized to the motion condition. Training and testing on motion had higher decodability, we think due to motion-specific signals.
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I've decided Joey will just always beat me to announcing my own work... Anyway, check out our new paper in the Journal of Neuroscience!! We replicate and (significantly?) extend Thyer et al.'s finding of a generalizable WM load signal. But that's not all...
Cortically disparate visual features evoke content-independent load signals during storage in working memory
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APPLICATIONS DUE OCT. 1ST! Assistant Professor in EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY @RiceUniversity Please RT! 🧬🔬🧫👩🔬🌻🪲🐜🐛🌱🍄🦠🐁🦋🐍🐸🐝🦅🐟🐢🦀🐙🐬🐘🦎
Hey y’all! We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology @RiceUniversity! Great place to work, excellent students & colleagues. Please RT! https://t.co/c6wil9QEK2
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